120 300
208
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NEWTON, HUEY.
Huey Newton for U. S. Congress. Bobby Seale for
State Assembly.
Handout pamphlet. 4 pages.
San Francisco, 1968
[600/900]
The Peace and Freedom Party with Eldridge Cleaver for President and Bobby Seale for the
California State Assembly was founded in 1967 in opposition to the Vietnam War. The Party
gained enough support to run on the ballot in California in 1968. Their platform statement called for
immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, support for the working people, community control of police, fair
trials for minorities, and an end to income taxes on working class citizens.
209
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BOBBY SEALE, HUEY NEWTON ET AL.
Assassination * Black Pigs
Assassinate Two Panther Leaders.
Black Panther Party Ministry of Information
Bulletins [No. 1] and No. 2. Uniform large folio sheets, folded to form four tall 4to pages,
printed on all sides.
California, 19 and 22 January, 1969
[1,000/1,500]
In early 1968, Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, a one time gang member and new convert to Islam and
the Panther Party, formed the Southern chapter of the Panthers in the Watts community of Los
Angeles. The party was gaining members every week; the Breakfast for Children project and other
community services were having a positive effect, but a rival group called Organization US, led by
Ron Karenga vied for recruits. At a Black Student Meeting at UCLA’s Campbell Hall, the two
groups got into a heated argument, and Carter and his associate John Jerome Huggins were shot and
killed. The Panthers always maintained that the shootings were planned and that the US group had
carried them out for the FBI.
210
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HAMPTON, FRED.
Fred Hampton, 1948-1969 When One of Us Falls,
1000 will Take his Place.
Poster 22
1
⁄
4
x 16
3
⁄
4
inches.
Np, circa 1969
[1,500/2,500]
A scarce poster commemorating the life of Fred Hampton, an African American activist and deputy
chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. According to witnesses, he was killed as he
lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office,
acting in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hampton’s death was chronicled in the 1971 documentary film “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” as
well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series “Eyes on the Prize.”
208
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